North American Free Trade Agreement
NAFTA | an agreement for free trade between the United States and Canada and Mexico, became effective in for ten years |
whale shark
Rhincodon typus | large spotted shark of warm surface waters worldwide, resembles a whale and feeds chiefly on plankton |
Atlantic spiny dogfish
Squalus acanthias | destructive dogfish of the Atlantic coastal waters of America and Europe, widely used in anatomy classes |
Atlantic manta
Manta birostris | largest manta (to feet across wings), found worldwide but common in Gulf of Mexico and along southern coasts of United States, primarily oceanic |
parula warbler
northern parula
Parula americana | small grey-blue wood warbler with yellow throat and breast, of eastern North America |
northern oriole
Icterus galbula | a kind of New World oriole |
northern shrike
Lanius borealis | a butcherbird of northern North America |
marsh hawk
northern harrier
hen harrier
Circus cyaneus | common harrier of North America and Europe, nests in marshes and open land |
northern cricket frog
Acris crepitans | a cricket frog of eastern and central United States |
lowland burrowing treefrog
northern casque-headed frog
Pternohyla fodiens | terrestrial burrowing nocturnal frog of grassy terrain and scrub forests having very hard upper surface of head, of the United States southwest |
Atlantic ridley
bastard ridley
bastard turtle
Lepidochelys kempii | grey sea turtle of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America |
northern bobwhite
Colinus virginianus | a favorite game bird of eastern and central United States |
American lobster
Northern lobster
Maine lobster
Homarus americanus | lobster of Atlantic coast of America |
| whale louse | amphipod crustacean parasitic on cetaceans |
northern phalarope
Lobipes lobatus | breeds in Arctic regions of Old and New Worlds, large flocks often seen far out at sea |
Atlantic puffin
Fratercula arctica | common puffin of the northern Atlantic |
stormy petrel
northern storm petrel
Hydrobates pelagicus | sooty black petrel with white markings, of the northern Atlantic and Mediterranean |
| whale | any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head |
baleen whale
whalebone whale | whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water |
| right whale | large Arctic whalebone whale, allegedly the `right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil |
bowhead
bowhead whale
Greenland whale
Balaena mysticetus | large-mouthed Arctic whale |
blue whale
sulfur bottom
Balaenoptera musculus | largest mammal ever known, bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere |
finback
finback whale
fin whale
common rorqual
Balaenoptera physalus | large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat, of Atlantic and Pacific |
sei whale
Balaenoptera borealis | similar to but smaller than the finback whale |
lesser rorqual
piked whale
minke whale
Balaenoptera acutorostrata | small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific |
humpback
humpback whale
Megaptera novaeangliae | large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives |
grey whale
gray whale
devilfish Eschrichtius gibbosus
Eschrichtius robustus | medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific |
| toothed whale | any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc. |
sperm whale
cachalot
black whale Physeter catodon | large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil, also a source of ambergris |
pygmy sperm whale
Kogia breviceps | small sperm whale of warm waters of both coasts of North America |
dwarf sperm whale
Kogia simus | very small (to feet) sperm whale of central coasts of Atlantic and Pacific |
| beaked whale | any of several whales inhabiting all oceans and having beaklike jaws with vestigial teeth in the upper jaw |
Hyperoodon
genus Hyperoodon | bottle-nosed whales |
bottle-nosed whale
bottlenose whale
bottlenose Hyperoodon ampullatus | northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead |
bottlenose dolphin
bottle-nosed dolphin
bottlenose | any of several dolphins with rounded forehead and well-developed beak, chiefly of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean |
Atlantic bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops truncatus | the most common dolphin of northern Atlantic and Mediterranean, often kept captive and trained to perform |
Pacific bottlenose dolphin
Tursiops gilli | a bottlenose dolphin found in the Pacific Ocean |
killer whale
killer
orca
grampus sea wolf
Orcinus orca | predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin, common in cold seas |
pilot whale
black whale common blackfish
blackfish Globicephala melaena | small darkolored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States, the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school |
white whale
beluga Delphinapterus leucas | small northern whale that is white when adult |
Atlantic walrus
Odobenus rosmarus | a walrus of northern Atlantic and Arctic waters |
northern bog lemming
Synaptomys borealis | of wet alpine and subalpine meadows of Canada and Alaska |
northern pocket gopher
Thomomys talpoides | greyish to brown gopher of western and central United States |
northern flying squirrel
Glaucomys sabrinus | large flying squirrel, chiefly of Canada |
woolly mammoth
northern mammoth
Mammuthus primigenius | very hairy mammoth common in colder portions of the northern hemisphere |
| northern snakehead | a voracious freshwater fish that is native to northeastern China, can use fin to walk and can survive out of water for three days, a threat to American populations of fish |
flathead catfish
mudcat
goujon
shovelnose catfish
spoonbill catfish
Pylodictus olivaris | large catfish of central United States having a flattened head and projecting jaw |
Atlantic cod
Gadus morhua | one of the world's most important commercial fishes |
Atlantic herring
Clupea harengus harengus | important food fish, found in enormous shoals in the northern Atlantic |
Atlantic salmon
Salmo salar | found in northern coastal Atlantic waters or tributaries, adults do not die after spawning |